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12/15/2007 12:00 AMStar Tribune Letters to the editor In response to the debate between Minnesota Business Partnership Executive Director Charlie Weaver and former Sen. Mark Dayton over school funding in Minnesota, there's a lot of great statistics going back and forth between the two, each easily proving their case. But here is a view from a taxpayer who currently has no children in the Minnesota school system. I don't want anyone to take my hard-earned money via property taxes to fund something based on emotional pleas and manipulated statistics. The use of schoolchildren as fodder for increasing budgets is reprehensible, and is obviously not working. How about this: Tell Minnesotans exactly where the $10 million or the $50 million or $100 million schools claim to need is going to be used. Line-item detail. Don't say it will be used to "reduce class sizes" or "bring us back to 2002 budget levels," etc. Tell us what schools are going to do with the money. And once you have my money, prove to me you used it for the requested purpose. JOE RAASCH, MINNEAPOLIS | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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